What Makes Sense is Constantly Changing

"I guess what I mean is maybe only parts of our lives make sense—and only for a moment—and when that moment changes, we change, and when we change that part that made sense goes out of focus and is replaced by another part that makes sense and so on and so on.  Only sometimes what makes sense to us at a particular moment can end up changing our lives forever because it leads us to do things we wouldn’t even conceive of doing during other moments."

- Gordon J.H. Leenders. May Not Appear Exactly As Shown. pg 195

Omnipresent Metaphor

Here's today's quote,

"Adults try as much as possible to avoid metaphor, though they are never wholly successful."

- Joseph Gold. Read For Your Life: Literature as a Life Support System. Fitzhenry and Whiteside: Markham, 1990. pg 160

Here's my thought on it,

"Not me! I love metaphors!"

Further thought, 


I do understand this quote though because often in regular conversation, it seems that my metaphors are not appreciated or fully understood by others. People seem to try to avoid them in conversation as well.

The LOST Mixtape

"Making a mixed CD is an art. When done well, the end-result is a beautiful, well-constructed piece of work... A true mixed CD requires thought. It's a recipe, a thought process, an expression."*

With that said, I'd like to present you with "The LOST Mixtape"

I made it partially because things have been up in the air for me a bit lately. I've been feeling kind of lost. That tied in with the LOST television series finale that aired this weekend and sparked the idea for this tape.

This is a mixed tape where all of the songs blend into each other. It's based on the show and focused around the theme of being lost.

I hope you enjoy it.

Create a playlist at MixPod.com

You can also download this tape for free, Side A and Side B

Enjoy! 

Oh, and just for fun, please leave me a comment either here or on Twitter about this mix. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the theme, the song selection, the order of the songs, and how they tie in to the LOST television series. 

The best comments will be put into a draw and you could win something. I'm not sure what yet but it will be cool. However, it might just get "lost" in the mail (I'm kidding.)

*Quotation is from "Tape That" by Roxanne Hathway-Baxer from Andy Magazine: 100 Mile Music Issue, Spring 2010

LOST Duct Tape

Miles: " I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in Duct Tape."

- LOST series finale

If you want to hear my thought on the series and the final episode, please check my main blog Silent Cacophony. 

A Perpetual Passion

"There is going on in the human heart a perpetual generation of passions, so that the overthrow of one is almost always the establishment of another."

- Maxim 10 from La Rochefoucauld's Maxims.

Happy Victoria Day Everyone!

I hope you have a great holiday weekend.  

Culture Cannot Be Contained

Beam of Light at Antelope Canyon
Originally uploaded by Something For Kate

"Culture is a funny thing in that it is not something that can be controlled and locked in the basement. Culture travels at the speed of light (or Internet cable lines) and doesn’t respect borders."

- Dalton Higgins. Hip Hop World: A groundwork guide. Anansi Press, Toronto. pg 51.

Spoonful of Authority

spoonful of secret text
Originally uploaded by snacktime2007

"Print is a powerful source of authority. It seems to be objective . . . and prints stays put, acquires a kind of fixedness, so you can refer to it, quote it, reread it, and rely on it as one unalterable version."

- Joseph Gold. Read For Your Life: Literature as a Life Support System. Fitzhenry and Whiteside: Markham, 1990. pg 304